Groups Conference Program - UFR de philosophie

GROUPS : CHALLENGES FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF RENNES 1, 19-21 NOVEMBRE 2014.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
LOCATION : Philosophy Building (32B), Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes 1
Wednesday, November 19th.
13 :45-14 :00 Registration
14 :00-15 :00
Room 12
Opening plenary lecture
Vincent Descombes, Directeur d'études à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
• The logic of collective identities
15 :00-15 :15 Coffee Break
15 :15-16 :45
First parallel session : Social ontology of groups
Room 12
Chair : Charles Girard, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
-Daniele Porello, Emanuele Bottazzi, and Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology,
ISTC-CNR (Italian National Research Council), Trento, Italy : « The ontology of group
agency »
-Laurent Perreau, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France : « On collective intentionality »
Second parallel session : Groups and Temporality
Room 13
Chair : François Calori, Université de Rennes 1
-Selina O’Doherty, University of South Wales, United Kingdom : « Temporal recognition :
Can (and should) groups be recognised pre-emptively? »
-Cédric Rio, Université de Poitiers, France : « How to reconcile social justice within and
between groups : the case of intergenerational justice »
16 :45-17 :00 Tea Break
17 :00-18 :00
Room 12
Roundtable
Presentation and discussion of G. Calder, M. Bessone, F. Zuolo, How Groups Matter,
Routledge, 2014.
Federico Zuolo, University of Pavia, Italy ;
Daniel Sabbagh, Sciences-Po Paris, France ;
Charles Girard, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III, France.
19 :30 Dinner
Restaurant Le Café Populaire
5 Quai Lamennais, 35000 Rennes
Tel : 02 99 78 23 43
Metro Station : République
Thursday, November 20th.
09 :00-10 :00
Room 12
Plenary Lecture
Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and Director, University of
Bristol Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship,
• Equality and Group Identity Revisited
10 :00-10 :15 Coffee Break
10 :15-12 :15
Third parallel session : Assessing Group Responsibility
Room 12
Chair : Daniel Sabbagh, CERI, Sciences-Po Paris
-Adina Preda, University of Limerick, United Kingdom : « Collective obligation, action and
responsibility »
-Alexander Dietz, University of Southern California, U.S.A. : « What we together ought to
do »
-Magali Bessone, Université de Rennes 1, France : « State responsibility for historical
injustices : slavery, colonialism and the republic »
Fourth parallel session : Groups and democratic equality
Room 13
Chair : Federico Zuolo, University of Pavia
-Pierre-Yves Neron, Université Catholique de Lille, France : « Group inequalities, behavioral
asymmetries and the empirical case for relational egalitarianism »
-Dan Pfeffer, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada : « Group integration in Quebec »
-Gideon Calder, University of South Wales, United Kingdom : « Families, groups and
individualism »
12 :30-14 :00
Lunch
University Cafeteria
Building 27.
14 :00 - 15 :00
Room 12
Plenary Lecture
Lawrence Blum, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, Professor of
Philosophy, University of Massachusetts
• Can race be a positive and coherent identity and basis for solidarity?
15 :00-15 :15 Coffee Break
15 :15 – 16 :45
Fifth parallel session : Group Beliefs
Room 12
Chair : Magali Bessone, Université de Rennes 1
-Onni Hirvonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland : « Collective beliefs and attributing
responsibility to Group agents »
-Olivier Ouzilou, Université d’Aix Marseille, France : « Collective beliefs and horizontal
interactions between groups : the case of political parties »
Sixth parallel session, Groups and Public
Room 13
Chair : Gideon Calder, University of South Wales
-Pierre Cloarec, University of Sherbrooke and Paris-Sorbonne Université, Canada and
France : « What is public in a public conception of justice ? »
-Roberto Frega, CEMS-IMM, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research),
France : « From groups to public, can a pragmatist democratic theory help us overcome the
present democratic deficit ? »
16 :45-17 :00 Tea Break
17 :00 – 18 :00
Room 12
Plenary Lecture
Jorge L. A. Garcia, Professor, Philosophy Department, Boston College
• Are Races Constructed? Grounds for Doubt
19 :30 Dinner
Crêperie des Quais
1 Quai Lamennais, 35000 Rennes
Tel : 02 99 79 34 79
Metro station : République
Friday, November 21st.
09 :00 – 11 :00
Seventh parallel session : Groups, Domination and Collective Resistance
Room 12
Chair : Ali Kebir, Université de Rennes 1
-Dorothea Gädeke, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany : « The Domination of Groups.
Making sense of collective claims against domination »
-Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, University College London, United Kingdom : « The
black libel of the black sea : a social etymology of slave »
-Mareike Christine Kajewski, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany : « The problems of
collective revolutionary actions »
Eighth parallel session : Groups and institutions
Room 13
Chair : Magali Bessone, Université de Rennes 1
-François Boucher, Université de Montréal, Canada : « Is there an institutional conception of
religious freedom ? »
-Clara Sandelind, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom : « A territorial and institutional
account of self-determining collectives »
-Olivier Chassaing, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France : « Social conflict
theories and state punishment »
11 :00-11 :15 Coffee Break
11 :15 – 12 :15
Room 12
Plenary Lecture
Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Professeure de philosophie, Université de Rennes 1 et Membre
Senior de l’IUF,
• L’universel au prisme des corporations
12 :30
Take-away lunch